<p>HaHaHa, you clerarly didn’t go to an Andover peer school! Everyone at these schools knows you can forget HYP if you’re not hooked. First, Andover, Saint Paul’s and the other boarding preps produce a huge number of scholar athletes. Where other schools their size might get 2 or three recruited each year they have dozens. </p>
<p>Next, as these schools accept a lot of legacies themselves, they are full of HYP legacies. Andover and the other top schools pretty much only sent their grads to ivies, and mostly HYP, 25 years ago. </p>
<p>After that the Andover’s have some off the charts accomplishments among their students. There are several every year who have done remarkable things on a global level.</p>
<p>Last, these schools have gathered some of the smartest minorities in the Country.</p>
<p>By the time the colleges have milked Andover for the athletes, satisfied their legacy donors, taken in the sons/daughters of Senators and other world leaders, gotten their share of the very rich and top minority students, they have already taken 10 or 12 which is all they want. And these schools really want to cut the number of kids coming from elite schools so as they take more internationals and scour the Country for diversity, it comes at the expense of their former majority, prep school students from wealthy families but not uber wealthy.</p>
<p>Top 10% doesn’t matter as it does at other schools. Nearly everyone is smart and the less smart are members of the special interest groups the colleges love!</p>
<p>Those who understand the system and really want HYP will go to their local public school or a less competitive/elite prep, not Andover. Here in NYC this is a huge frustration for the newly rich-their kids don’t have the same shot at these schools as the old money kids!</p>